AccuWeather's Guy Pearson shares where the wind, hail and tornadoes were reported yesterday during a very busy storm day.
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00:00 I want to bring AccuWeather severe weather expert Guy Pearson. You know Guy, right behind me here you could see the storm reports here.
00:06 And I'll tell you what, that high risk that you and the forecast team went out with in the morning anywhere from just south of Wichita, north of Oklahoma City,
00:15 that's where we had the worst of the storms. But, you know, listen, it was a big day yesterday. It could have been far worse, couldn't it have?
00:24 Yes, it certainly could have. Good morning everybody. We did, you know, the focal point yesterday with the tornadoes, the hail, and some of the even high winds at 80, 82 miles an hour that were reported with some of the storms.
00:39 You know, we're right in that high risk area, or the extreme that we had, and that dangerous area, you know, with everything storm wise that was sort of moving through with everything,
00:52 we ended up quite a bit at wind. The line of storms that you see this morning, that extended all the way back to really from Omaha back through Topeka, Kansas,
01:02 to just east of Wichita and north of Oklahoma City last night, and has continued to move east all night, producing all those wind reports that you have across Missouri.
01:10 And then of course the storms earlier in the day produced all the hail back over central and north central Kansas.
01:19 Alright, let's get to today, Guy, because we're not done. We're tracking that line of thunderstorms here, but we have that additional energy across Nebraska,
01:27 and that's going to come into a pretty volatile area this afternoon, that moderate risk from Indiana, western Ohio, and all the way into downstate Illinois.
01:40 Yep, this line that is moving east through this morning, the line of storms, as it moves east, there will be some clearing on the backside of that.
01:49 So this second piece of energy that you're talking about there, as it rotates out from Nebraska on east later today, then that's going to reinitiate.
01:58 We're already seeing a couple showers straight back across what would be central Missouri, well back behind that line.
02:06 So as it moves east, we get some clearing, and then obviously we're going to get some more destabilization, you get that next piece of energy,
02:14 and you will have some discrete cells that will produce some hail, the chance of a few tornadoes will be there, as well as some damaging winds.
02:23 Yeah, and unfortunately we have a high risk for tomorrow as well.
02:27 Alright, AccuWeather severe weather expert Guy Pearson. Guy, thanks for joining us again here on AccuWeather Early.